They look great, they are VERY tough, they have a decent battery life (yes it is a decent battery life, i dont care what other people say, 12-14 hour battery life is decent to me...) they are very easy to use, pretty decent sound quality with decent speakers (yes the ipod own headphones suck).
i love my ipod, its great... i use my sony more now, cause ive kinda mullered my ipod a lil bit, but it still works fine, and i still use it occasionally. i will always disagree with the idiots that say 'ipods suck!! get a creative!!' ipods do not suck... period. they are very, very tough... when a creative can be dropped in a lake twice, and handled by me for a year (trust me thats pretty tough, im awful with expensive things, lol) then ill believe they are better, but untill then, ipods will be better IMO. mines been in a lake twice, and dropped literally hundreds of times, and it works perfectly fine...